Making Identity on the Swahili Coast: Urban Life, Community, and Belonging in Bagamoyo

ISBN-13: 9781108710046 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 370 str.

Steven Fabian

Opis

A re-examination of the historical development of urban identity and community along the Swahili Coast.

Recenzje

'This history of one of East Africa's most important nineteenth-century urban centers has been worth the wait. Fabian offers a nuanced study that links the emergence of the 'local' in Bagamoyo to the everyday interactions of residents and itinerants from both of its hinterlands: the Indian Ocean world and the East African interior. This is a much-needed corrective to the overburdening of 'Swahili' identity found in many previous studies of the East African coast.' Stephen Rockel, University of Toronto, Scarborough

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Owners of the town: Shomvi, Zaramo, Nyamwezi, and Indians; 2. Owners of the town: Baluchis, Omanis, and Spiritans; 3. Becoming Wabagamoyo: a local vocabulary for a Swahili town; 4. The particularities of place: space, identity, and the Coastal Rebellion of 1888–1890; 5. Colonial power, community identity, and consultation; 6. 'Curing the cancer of the colony': undermining local attachments.